Communication & Media Studies at University of North Florida

If you plan to study communication and media studies, take a look at what University of North Florida has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UNF is located in Jacksonville, Florida and approximately 16,926 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,573 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of North Florida in 2021, 221 of them were communication and media studies majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Communication & Media Studies section at the bottom of this page.

UNF Communication & Media Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

UNF Communication & Media Studies Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks communications programs across the country. The following shows how UNF performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The communications major at UNF is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Communication & Media Studies. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	104
Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	256
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How Much Do Communications Graduates from UNF Make?

The median salary of communications students who receive their bachelor's degree at UNF is $32,712. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $32,435 for all communications bachelor's degree recipients.

Communications Student Demographics at UNF

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the communications majors at University of North Florida.

UNF Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 221 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in communications from UNF in 2021, 27% were men and 73% were women.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in communications at UNF are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of North Florida with a bachelor's in communications.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	152
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

UNF also has a doctoral program available in communications. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Public Relations & Advertising

Careers That Communications Grads May Go Into

A degree in communications can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for FL, the home state for University of North Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Public Relations Specialists	12,050	$60,920
Editors	4,190	$58,200
Writers and Authors	1,830	$53,140
Reporters and Correspondents	1,740	$53,810
Radio and Television Announcers	1,350	$56,960

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By The222 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.